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BUCHANAN v. STATE

No. 42638.

453 S.W.2d 479 (1970)

Dean BUCHANAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jake C. Cook, Fort Worth, court-appointed, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., and Truman Power, Ronald W. Quillin, George McManus and William A. Knapp, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 75 years.

In his second ground of error the appellant contends that the trial court erred in not granting his motion to quash the indictment in that the Criminal District Court into which the indictment was returned did not have jurisdiction over him for the reason that he was at that time a sixteen-year-old juvenile.

After the Juvenile Court acquired jurisdiction...

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